Stochastic Trend

After Google Reader shut down I migrated to the Old Reader , which offered a similar user interface. But they have been swamped with migran...

I was interested to see a working paper on pricing Lake Nakuru National Park , which I recently visited .  They find that the revenue maxim...

I've made a few posts in the last half year or so on the potential slowing of the rate of technological change and economic growth and ...

Some very interesting trends in US employment that I saw in a free newsletter I subscribe to. The data is from the Federal Reserve Bank of...

I get a huge amount of spam from something called "Inayah Group". Most of it is in Arabic or has no content but I noticed this i...

The ARC has released its schedule of important dates for 2014 . In the past, funding rules and application dates have only been released cl...

The Global Energy Assessment is now available for free online. This is a major international assessment of the prospects for energy transit...

I'm finally back in Australia after travelling for almost 4 weeks including a week spent at the IPCC meeting in Addis Ababa. In the mea...

Here is the link for Crawford School of Public Policy .

I'm in Malaga, Spain (above) on a circuitous route to the IPCC Working Group III 4th lead author meeting in Addis Ababa. I just saw t...

There is considerable uncertainty about levels of greenhouse gas emissions particularly for those associated with land use change as well a...

A new tool from Elsevier gives you information on suitable journals for your paper, but more importantly average times to first editorial ...

I spent last week in the US and Canada including attending the First International Workshop on Econometric Applications in Climatology . T...

I was wondering what the difference was between the "Innovation Precincts" recently announced by the Australian government and th...

Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics has always been a very confusing topic in ecological economics . Tom Murphy explains the diffe...

The 2013 ANZSEE Conference will take place in November at the Crawford School. All abstracts are due by 26th July. There will both be t...

My paper with Kerstin Enflo: "Causality between energy and output in the long-run" has been accepted to be published in Energy Ec...

I haven't blogged much recently as things have been very busy, teaching, admin, service (reviewing things), and lots of research proje...

A 2010 NBER working paper by Reinhart and Rogoff (also published in AER P&P) claimed that countries grow slower when they have high pu...

A few months ago, there was a debate about whether economic growth was coming to an end. Based on this graph it looks like economic growth...

You can see the other sites featured by following this link . There are some that I occasionally visit like Andrew Gelman's site and a...

I finally got a citation by someone other than myself to my first full length journal article , published in late 1990 just as I was start...

This is just for faculty at level C (senior lecturer) and above. We have a lot of post-docs and junior faculty with ANU PhDs. If we inclu...

I updated an analysis I did a couple of years ago of Crawford faculty. It is a lot easier now to include citation data from Google Schola...

Yesterday I went to a presentation by the head of the Australian Research Council, Aidan Byrne. I asked him to comment on the article in th...